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WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee considered $27 million in new trucking security funding for 2003 last week, as Congress wrangled over appropriations that could freeze spending at 2002 levels.

Mullen Transportation Buys 4 Smaller Companies • Navistar Seen Asking Supplier to Share Recall Cost • House Committee Rejects 15% Hike in Highway Spending • FedEx Not Planning to Resume Profit Sharing • And more...

WASHINGTON — The Clean Diesel Independent Review Panel, whose members have attempted to evaluate industry compliance with upcoming heavy-duty engine emission standards, concluded last week that more work is needed on emerging technologies to cut smog-forming emissions to government-mandated levels.

William J. Canary, president of the American Trucking Associations, sent a letter to President Bush Wednesday seeking his intervention into the potentially crippling West Coast port lockout, the American Trucking Associations said.

Manufacturing activity across the United States fell below its break-even point in September, marking the first contraction since January, a survey of purchasing managers said Tuesday.

As the Environmental Protection Agency’s Oct. 1 deadline for producing cleaner-running diesel truck engines neared, the primary effect was uncertainty in the trucking and truck-manufacturing industries.

As the Environmental Protection Agency-mandated deadline requiring a new generation of diesel engines in heavy-duty trucks passes this week, the entire industry involved in making trucks is in disarray and bracing for the worst of times.

A lockout by the Pacific Maritime Association continued into Tuesday morning as the sides could not come to an agreement in sporadic talks Monday, Bloomberg reported.

Construction Spending Falls 0.4% in August • Navistar, UAW Extend Talks, Contract • Yellow Completes Spinoff of SCS Transportation • Brake Part Recall Will Cost $51 Million, Navistar Says • And more ...